OLYMPICS SPOTLIGHT: 20 years on from disaster in Athens, USA goes for basketball gold again... led by LeBron James and Steph Curry, the Americans are gunning for a 17th title - and there can be no excuses in Paris

When the USA men's team waltzed into the 2004 Olympics, most would have thought that a fourth straight gold medal was a foregone conclusion. Instead, it started and ended with disaster.